Fauna
The park is known for its virgin forest teeming with numerous wildlife, with several only endemic to the Philippines. Some of the animals observed to inhabit the park are Monitor lizard, Monkey, deer, wild pig, Parrot, Dove, Pigeon, Jungle fowl (manok labuyo), yellow bittern, cinnamon bittern, Buff-banded Rail, Barred Rail, White-browed Crake, Marsh Sandpiper, Long-toed Stint, Swinhoe's Snipe, Striated Grassbird, Rufous Hornbill, Luzon Hornbill, Pink-bellied Imperial Pigeon, Guaiabero, Colasisi, Blackish Cuckooshrike, Flaming Sunbird and Flowerpecker.
On April 2010, the Northern Sierra Madre Forest monitor lizard Varanus bitatawa (local name: Butikaw) was discovered by the western world. The lizard has long been known to the Aeta and Ilongot indigenous peoples who have used it as a food source.
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